Quotes About Corruption

Crime, money, power, drugs - are all linked.

Money: There's nothing in the world so demoralizing as money.

PACs corrupt the system. They handle vast amounts of money and the money corrupts.

Anybody tells you that money is the root of all evil doesn't have any.

Former U.S. House Majority Leader, Tom DeLay, has been sentenced to three years in prison. One year for money laundering and two more for his performance on 'Dancing with the Stars.'

What people fail to appreciate is that the currency of corruption in elective office is, not money, but votes.

When these political action committees give money, they expect something in return other than good government.

Somebody said once 'Follow the money' and that is what it is all about.

We need a complete ban on soft money, which is sort of an enveloping problem, and a ceiling on the amount of money that can be spent on a given race.

the convictions of Hollywood and television are made of boiled money.

My final comment is that I still believe this man [John D. Rockefeller] is corrupt and he used unfair ways to become wealthy, all he cared about was his money and wasn't considered.

Our Congress is the finest body of men money can buy.

I think when money starts to corrupt journalism, it undermines the journalism, and it undermines the credibility of the product, and you end up not succeeding.

Who touches money touches dirt; and the less religion has to do with it, the better.

I always thought the real violence in Hollywood isn't what's on the screen. It's what you have to do to raise the money.

That's why Credit card companies are evil. Are they sponsoring the show tonight? ... They are Evil.

What power has law where only money rules?

The insolence of authority is endeavoring to substitute money for ideas.

The idea that money is corrupting innocent politicians would be laughable if it did not lead to such dangerous legislation.

Money always talks louder than morality.

Lobbyist influence comes from access, not money.

Nothing incites to money-crimes like great poverty or great wealth.

Saddam Hussein's trial would not be public since he could name countries and persons whom he gave money.

Saddam spent 35 years stealing and wasting money, and all of these systems are very fragile and brittle, and you try to fix one thing and something else gets in trouble.